08 March 2014

STEPHEN O MALLEY, OREN AMBARCHI & RANDALL DUNN have collaborated on a new release  SHADE THEMES FROM KAIROS, due to be released on Drag City Records on 19th May 2014, both on vinyl and digital formats.

omalleyShade Themes From Kairos is a new iteration of the dream for all the guitar freaks out there, bringing together a couple of singular players together, just to see what happens. In this case, the players were old friends and collaborators Oren Ambarchi (Burial Chamber Trio, Gravetemple, Pentemple) and Stephen O’Malley of Sunn O))) and many other projects,  playing in a space engineered and co-populated by Randall Dunn (Master Musicians of Bukkake).

The Shade album began in 2009, when Belgian filmmaker Alexis Destoop asked Ambarchi and O’Malley to score his short feature, “Kairos.” Randall Dunn was their first and best choice to record and co-produce the music – and as the session progressed, all three men found themselves acting as a trio to bring the music.  In the end, this album was made by a trio of players. Decamped in an old radio station in Kortrijk, Belgium, they filled a bare, stripped live broadcast room with the needed equipment as well as other amazing old pieces made available by the gearheads of the European lowlands.The recordings feature guitars, drums, analog synthesizers, vibes, crotales, Sruti box and a mellotron.